ABSTRACT
Anger engenders mixed emotions. It often leaves us feeling wrecked, or racked with guilt. There is a view that to optimise emotional well-being we must express a whole range of feelings, but that anger is potentially our most dangerous emotion and, at its most extreme, can lead to death. Contrast this with Freud’s view that unexpressed anger actually causes depression and it becomes clear that the contradictions in the poem above are very real for us all.
